North of Hope : A Daughter's Arctic Journey

from alison.arians

I really enjoyed North of Hope! The book chronicles Shannon's journey through grief, and part of her healing journey is a trip down the Arctic Hulahula River. Having spent many months myself on rivers in the Arctic, I really appreciated the descriptions of landscape, the villages, the weather, ...

from greg1010

This is a beautiful compelling book that I could not put down until I finished. The book begins with the author's loss and her attempt to finish the Arctic trip her parent's did not. The literary prose used to tell this story and the style she uses to take you through different times while moving...

from ArleenWilliams

In prose as crystalline as the Arctic wilderness itself, Shannon Huffman Polson's North of Hope took me on a journey to a physical place I do not know and an emotional landscape I know only too well. With grace and raw honesty, she shares her story of loss and longing, of eventual and inevitable ...

from Cheryl.Russell

"The plane fell from the clouds toward the dirt airstrip in the Inupait village of Kaktovik, Alaska. I braced myself against the seat in front of me. Windows aged and opague blurred the borders of ice and land, sea and sky." (19) One year after her father and stepmother are killed by a grizzly be...

from LoveAtFirstBook

I received this book from the author and publisher, Zondervan, in exchange for a fair and honest review. North of Hope by Shannon Huffman Polson is a memoir of a time in Shannon's life when her world came crashing down, and she tried to get it back to normal. Shannon's father and stepmother, Kath...